CounterSpin

CounterSpin


Latest Episodes

Sasha Abramsky on Trump’s New Attack on Immigrants
August 23, 2019

Who, at this point, is served when corporate media consider Trump's cruel attacks on immigrants in any context other than cruelty? 

‘Monsanto Has Worked Very Hard to Discredit Me and My Work’
August 20, 2019

"It's subterfuge. It's a fraud upon the public, it's an intended fraud upon the media, and it's designed to control the narrative and control the news."

On Gun Violence, ‘We Need the Federal Government to Take Bold Steps’
August 19, 2019

"We can't continue to work in silos of doing this gun violence work, that urban areas' gun violence, domestic violence, suicide rates from gun violence, all talked about in the report, all tie together, and you have to come together as one human commun...

Ernest Coverson on Guns & Human Rights, Carey Gillam Under Attack From Monsanto
August 16, 2019

Vast majorities of Americans support serious regulation, but corporate media debate still seems to revolve around the supposed "rights" of the few, rather than the right of the many to live a life free from this scourge.

‘Black Communities Are Already Living in a Tech Dystopia’
August 15, 2019

"We can't take an ahistorical approach to technology's role in sedimenting forms of inequity and hierarchy; we have to go through this history to understand the present."

‘People Are Demanding Accountability for the Fossil Fuel Industry’
August 14, 2019

"There are very real solutions to addressing the climate crisis, and they're being deployed by people around the world."

Ruha Benjamin on Race After Technology
August 09, 2019

Some examples of discriminatory design are obvious—which doesn't mean the reasons behind them are easy to fix. And then there are other questions around technology and bias—in policing, in housing, in banking—that require deeper questioning.

‘Museums Like the Whitney Are Accountable to the Communities They Claim to Serve’
August 08, 2019

"What we’ve tried to say, both as artists and as people living in the city, to the Whitney, is that, 'No, Kanders can’t be on a board of the Whitney Museum that claims to be a progressive institution, that claims to serve a public interest.'”

NPR Shreds Ethics Handbook to Normalize Regime Change in Venezuela
August 05, 2019

The exclusion of Chavista voices is endemic to NPR’s coverage of Venezuela, in gross violation of the outlet’s own ethics handbook.

‘Democracy Has Become a Joke on the Island’
August 02, 2019

"The mainstream media still seems to be focused on the idea that this is all caused by a corrupt government in Puerto Rico, with no visible narrative of the colonial control behind it."